Daily National Democrat

Spiritualism in England.—Quite a controversy is raging in some of the London papers with regard to the merits of Hume and spiritualism. A gentleman, who appends his name to the communication as a pledge of the truth of his statements, sends to the London Star an extraordinary account of the performances of Hume. He says:

I distinctly saw the accordion moving and heard it playing when held at one end, again and again. I held it myself for a short time, and had good reason to know that it was vehemently pulled at the other end, and not by Mr. Hume's toes, as has been wisely surmised, unless that gentleman has legs three yards long, with toes at the end of them quite as marvellous as any legion of spirits. For, be it stated, that such music as we heard was no ordinary strain: it was grand at times, at others pathetic, at others distant and long-drawn, to a degree which no one can imagine who has not heard it. I have heard Blagrove repeatedly, but it is no libel on that master of the instrument to say that he never did produce such exquisite distant and echo notes as those which delighted our ears. The instrument played too, at distance parts of the room many yards away from Mr. Hume, and from all of us. I believe I am stating a fact when I say that not one person in that room could play the accordion at all. Mr. Hume cannot play a note upon it.